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How to run the WordPress importer tool to import text and images to your website

October 27, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

On your WordPress website you may want to import text and images to your website from a different WordPress website or from your own website that you did a backup of. You can use the WordPress importer tool to import a backup you made of your text and images using the WordPress export tool on there. This is on way on how to do that. If you have not already done it you may want to install the WordPress importer tool first on there.

  1. From the WordPress Admin you can click on tools > import in the left menu
  2. From that page at the bottom of the page it says WordPress and you can click run importer
  3. From that page you can click on the browse button
  4. From the browse page you can find the backup xml file
  5. When you find the xml file you can click open
  6. From the import WordPress page there is an import author setting you do
  7. There is an option to download and import file attachments like images to it
  8. When you have done the settings you want you can click the submit button
  9. When you do that it will run the import to your website on it

Then if you do that you should have imported your text and images to that website on there.

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